{"id":2442,"date":"2010-03-17T07:49:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T11:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:17:09","slug":"kelsey-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/2010\/03\/17\/kelsey-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsey Derricks Wins AMA Research Grant!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelsey Derricks, a Boston University ENGMEDIC student, was awarded a highly competitive American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation Seed Grant to conduct research in Dr. Matthew Nugent\u2019s laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry at BUSM.\u00a0 Kelsey, a 2009 graduate from Boston University\u2019s Biomedical Engineering program, will expand on her senior research project, <em>Engineering a 3D Lung Extracellular Matrix<\/em>, that she completed under the joint guidance of Dr. Nugent and Dr. Bela Suki (Department of Biomedical Engineering).\u00a0 Kelsey will study the mechanisms controlling lung cell production of extracellular matrix and specifically aims to understand how mechanical forces and inflammatory proteases act together to modulate the structure and function of lung extracellular matrix.\u00a0 The goal of these studies is to provide insight for the eventual development of new therapies for chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, a large group of deadly diseases with few available treatment options.<\/p>\n<p>The AMA Foundation established the Seed Grant Research Program in 2000 to encourage medical students, physician residents and fellows to enter the research field. The program provides grants to help budding physician scientists conduct small basic science, applied, or clinical research projects.\u00a0 In 2010 the AMA Foundation awarded 38 seed grants to physicians and students across the United States.\u00a0 Kelsey is the first Boston University student to ever be awarded an AMA Seed Grant.\u00a0 Congratulations Kelsey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelsey Derricks, a Boston University ENGMEDIC student, was awarded a highly competitive American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation Seed Grant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}